and policy makers alike. This paper employs data from a nationally representative survey in Indonesia to investigate the … impact of financial literacy on poverty, which is a downstream welfare indicator. Consequently, we have constructed a … composite financial literacy index. Our results reveal that financial literacy plays an important role in reducing poverty. This …

Numerous microfinance initiatives around the world aim to alleviate poverty in developing countries. However, debate … from two studies in Indonesia that help explain why moneylending can still thrive when low-interest microfinance is widely …

A key question in the design of anti-poverty programs is to what extent they should be targeted. Empirical evaluations … attach specific weights to true and false positive rates. Based on data from Bolivia and Indonesia, we show that targeting … based on an imperfect poverty classifier based on proxy means tests results in very distinct 'optimal' beneficiary shares …

In 2013, the Government of Indonesia conducted one of the largest information interventions in histo-ry, in an attempt … to further alleviate poverty and as a complement to the Social Protection Card (KPS). Drawing upon administrative data … Indonesia's largest social programs, the Raskin (rice for the poor) and the BLSM (temporary unconditional cash transfers …

This chapter addresses the unrelenting pessimism in Asian Drama about Indonesia's development prospects. This pessimism … Dutch colonial policies) and the extreme poverty witnessed in rural areas. Using historical and modern data on the …